Before we had laptops, Android tablets, mobile phones, iPads and Google Glass, we had the humble typewriter. Take a look at these fascinating – and once crucial – forms of communication…
Check out some delicious photos and think back to the days before the DELETE key! Remember carbon paper, white out/liquid paper and replacing the ink ribbon.
Read more about the history of typewriters from Wikipedia and Inventors.about.com, and The Classic Typewriter page has some good history too, dating the concept of a typewriter back to 1714.
Typewriter enthusiast, Darryl Rehr, also has a lot of good historical information on his site, The First Typewriter, as does he TypewriterMuseum and ideafinder.com websites (includes books and links).
Note: the QWERTY keyboard was created to help slow down the process so we’ve found this site for more information.
MyTypewriter.com has some interesting content about famous authors and their typewriters, eg. Jack Kerouac, Harper Lee, Agatha Christie, Joan Didion, Ian Fleming, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Margaret Mitchell.
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Cheers, Natasha
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